Rail-joint.



J. E" BAMBER.

RAIL JOINT. APPLICATION FILED DEC. 28, l9i2.

Patented Nov. 25, 1913.

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RAIL-JOINT,

- Specification of Letters Patent,

Patented Nov. 2 5,1913..

Application filed December 28-, 19-12. Serial No. 739,101.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN E. BAMBER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Rouse, in the county of Huerfano and State of Colorado, have invented new and useful Improvements in Rail-Joints, of which the following is a'specification.

The present invention relates to improvements in railway rails.

In carrying out my invention it is my purpose to provide a construction of railway rails wherein the ends of said rails are so formed as to effectively impart an interlocking engagement one with the other without necessitating the employment of fish plat-es,

rail chairs, or analogous devices.

It is also my purpose to construct the meeting or co-acting ends of railway rails in such shape and form that they will so interlock, one with the other as to provide a substantially continuous rail, wherein the lateral movement at the joint of the same is eifectively overcome, as is also the pounding of the rails incident to the wheels of the rollin stock passing from one of the rails onto tTe second or co-acting rail.

With the above recited objects in view, and others which will appear as the nature of the invention is more fully understood, the improvement resides in the construction, combination and arrangement of parts set forth in the following description and falling within the scope of the appended claim.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a top plan view of a rail constructed in accordance with the present invention, Fig. 2 is a similar view of the connected rail ends, Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view upon the line 33 of Fig. 2, Fig. 4 is a horizontal sectional view upon the line 44 of Fig. 3, Fig. 5 is a longitudinal sectional view upon the line 55 of Fig. 3, Fig.6 is a perspective view of one of the ends of the rail, and Fig. 7 is a similar view of the opposite or co-acting end of the rail.

The rail R has its body portion of the usual formation, but the said rail has its ends enlarged. The ends of the rail are of a different construction, and as the said ends are adapted to engage with the ends of co-acting rails, for the sake of convenience, one of the said ends will be designated by the numeral 1 and the other end will be designated by the numeral 2. The enlarged end 1 is formed with longitudinally extending recesses 3 and 4, the same providing outer side members 5 and a centrally arranged partition 6. The sides 5 as well as .the central member 6 terminate at the top 1 of the rail and the lower longitudinal walls ;extend approximately to the top of the base flange of the rail end. The recesses 3 and 4 are extended each a suitable distance beneath the head of the rail, to provide pockets 7 and 8. The sides 5 as well as the partition 6 are provided with a plurality of openings 9, the purpose of which will presently be described. The enlarged end 2 of the rail is formed with longitudinally extending spaced tongues 11 and 12, both of'the said tongues being of a size to engage within the recesses 3 and 4, and these tongues are formed with elongated openings 13 which are adapted to register with the openings in the sides of the co-acting rail ends. The tongues 11 and 12 are further provided with extensions 14 and 15 which are adapted to be received within the pocket provided by the recesses 3 and 4. The wall of the rail between the tongues 11 and 1.2 is recessed, as at 16, and the partition 6 is provided with an extending tongue 17 which is adapted to engage within the said recess.

In assembling the co-acting rail ends, the tongues 11 and 12 are arranged within the recesses 3 and 4 and their extensions engage within the pockets provided by the said recesses, while the projecting portion of the partition 6 is received within the depression or pocket provided between the tongues 11 and 12. The registering openings are adapted for the reception of securing elements which are preferably in the form of rivets 19, the said rivets having their ends flattened against one of the sides or walls formed with the rail end 1.

From the above description, taken in connection with the drawings, the simplicity of the device, as well as its advantages, will, it is thought, be perfectly apparent to those skilled in the art to which such invention appertains, without further detailed description.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim is:

In a rail joint, identical rail sections, each of said sections having its vertical web provided at one end with spaced extensions having alined shoulders lying below the plane of the upper surfaces of said extensions, and disposed 1n parallel relation thereto on either side of the axis of the Web, and provided at its opposite end with a pair of longitudinally extending slots provided With shoulders and recesses opening directly into the 5 slots for the reception of the shoulders of the adjacent rail section, an integral extension formed at said opposite end of the section and separating the slots from each other and extending beyond the outer ends 10 of the slots and provided with a shoulder lying in the same horizontal plane With the shoulders of the said spaced extensions, the said section having a recess opening into the space between the spaced extensions for the reception of the shoulder on the extenl5 sion of the next adjacent rail section.

- In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

JOHN E. BAMBER. Witnesses:

WILLIAM WVnLsBY, C. VICTOR MAZZONE.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents. Washington, D. G. 

